{ Cough... } Don't forget the Big Red Button marked 'Emergency Stop'.
Relying on a cranky App would be so silly...

remember the 'google glass' ?

Nothing could possibly go worng.

It describes the vehicle as "the first production-ready vehicle built from the start to operate safely on its own, with no driver, steering wheel, pedals or manual controls."


How comforting it must be to the occupants of such a vehicle to be locked in a box which careens down the road with no human accessible controls whatsoever.

Almost like an elevator, I guess...? Or an aisle seat in standard class on an airplane...?

When GM bought Cruise Automation, I was concerned that GM would quietly bury the Cruise technology. I am elated that GM has instead given Cruise the hefty resources it needs to make a major advance.

It's remarkable that a stodgy old-line company like GM would take the risk of being the first company to deploy machine-driven cars. There are bound to be a few early glitches and hundreds of lawyers are hoping to become rich from these glitches. But this technology promises enormous benefits to humanity and it appears ready for the first real-world experiments. It's good that this risky step is being taken by a company with some of the best technology and the deepest pockets.

So the company that KNOWINGLY kept on using parts that caused a lot of people to die, now wants us to trust them to make a vehicle that you have no way to control when it has a problem?

When these things have electronic problems that result in autonomous control failure, how many people will die because they won't be able to safely stop/steer the vehicle?

Thanks, but no thanks.